Beyond Tradition

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633671
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Author : Vicki Lukere
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824846206
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birthing in the Pacific written by Vicki Lukere and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.

Author : Anna Paskevska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113587879X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ballet Beyond Tradition written by Anna Paskevska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive training. Ballet Beyond Tradition seeks to reconcile these age-old conflicts and bring a new awareness to ballet teachers of the importance of a holistic training regimen that draws on the best that modern dance and movement-studies offers.

Author : Daniel A. Bonevac
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Western Tradition written by Daniel A. Bonevac and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grace Fong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412966
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Tradition and Modernity written by Grace Fong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either traditional or modern. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how the creativity of these writers marked a new moment in historical and literary practices transcending this usual binary and simple teleology. Their essays expose how the ethnographic, literary, and educational projects of these men and women gave voice to new ideals and ideas that reflect the changing boundaries of gender at this time.

Author : Jim Posewitz
Publisher : FalconGuides
ISBN 13 : 9780762788514
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Fair Chase written by Jim Posewitz and published by FalconGuides. This book was released on 2002-06-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Fair Chase is for anyone concerned about the future of hunting. In simple but powerful text, it describes the ethical way to hunt, from preparation to shooting to care after the shot. Never before have so many issues been linked together in an ethical context.

Author : Christopher Chávez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869074
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity written by Christopher Chávez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity: Beyond Tradition and McWorld Neoliberalism refashions the frameworks of discussion of “who we are”. In the “Introduction”, co-editors Brian Michael Goss and Christopher Chávez’s grand tour re-works previous concepts of identity in prelude to the volume’s global reach. The first section examines the intersection of identity and mass media; to wit, non-ascriptive ideological interpolation in a right-wing British broadsheet, the rise of beur cinema as an organically European movement, and linguistic construction of foreigners in a Thai novel. The second section examines the nation and trans-nation. The discussion traverses the “Global Latino” in advertising discourse, the (practical, theoretical) conundrums inscribed in the European Union, retorts to the global construction of Italianicity, implications of Spain’s World Cup triumph in 2010 for the nation’s unity, and the activism of expatriate Iranian bloggers. The third section of the book addresses social approaches to identity. Matchmakers who coach Israeli daters and a linguistic analysis of female teen conflict on Facebook conclude the trajectory through global sites at which identity is animated in practice, within a volume of scholarly originality grounded in the present moment.

Author : Heather Cateau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Tradition written by Heather Cateau and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Tradition some of the Caribbean's younger generation of historians reflect new directions in the historiography off the region by extending the focus beyond the plantation and the dominant sugar culture to expose a vast range of dynamic economic, social and political activities previously ignored or considered insignificant. Thus, they introduce more actors, discuss non-agricultural forms of employment and examine the roles of non-elite males and females and those of Asians, Africans and Europeans. Together, these new writings represent a conscious effort to adjust the direction of Caribbean historiography by refining the analytical model to incorporate the full range of historical experiences.

Author : Alexander Mathäs
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205638
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Posthumanism written by Alexander Mathäs and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

Author : Lois Essary Jacka
Publisher : Northland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780873585200
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Tradition written by Lois Essary Jacka and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid study of modern Indian art. Clara Lee Tanner introduces the book with an essay on the tradition. Lois Jacka describes the artists and their powerful work. Jerry Jacka has made extraordinarily fine photos that have been printed expertly by Dai Nippon. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR